Dr. Gilbertos Leon warns about this, saying these changes to the heart caused by smart meters are anything but symptomless or silent and major damages can take place without people even realizing it. Constant bombardment of microwave radiation from smart meters represents “and unnatural sequence of events we are not programmed to respond to… long-term exposure to smart meters can be extremely damaging to normal myocardial function.”

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Well, we know that a microwave oven if it leaks can damage a pacemaker. So why are we “surprised” that a microwave transmitter aka “smart meter” may have similar properties.

I’m sure our wise and powerful overlords, aka politicians and bureaucrats, will investigate if too many subjects are killed. Till then “let them eat cake”!

I read that the city government of Nashville gave the NFL $3 million as part of the deal to hold the NFL draft there. It’s probably a lot more when one counts all the police overtime, thousands of portable toilets, public works cleanup after 300,000 drunken football fans, etc. Among the major beneficiaries of these handouts, besides the NFL billionaire team owners, appear to be the wealthy country music stars who own bars and restaurants on Music Row where more than 100,000 extra customers per day gathered for the better part of a week. Blake Shelton, Dierkes Bentley, Luke Bryan, and others all own big restaurants and bars there.

Much of that $3 million ended up in their bank accounts as a result of a quadrupling or more of their weekend business. The taxpaying residents, on the other hand, were screwed with impossible traffic and crowds everywhere, noise, trash galore, jacked-up prices at bars and restaurants, etc.

This seems to be the modus operandi of towns that are “tourist destinations”: The purpose of local government there is not to “serve the public” but to make more money for the bar and restaurant owners there who in turn finance the political careers of the political hacks on the city council and the mayor’s office.

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So why don’t the NFL owners and the local business folks pay for their parties?

Why always does the taxpayer get screwed?

When will “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the rip off?

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Answers: (1) They don’t have to. (2) The Taxpayer is the “wallet at the end of the rainbow”. (3) Never!

The judge allowed twice-deported immigrant evade federal custody, report says Joseph and Wesley MacGregor, the trial court officer, are accused of conspiring to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from taking an immigrant into custody at Newton District Court on April 2, 2018.

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Is this akin to back in the pre-Civil War (aka the War of Northern Aggression), when the North nullified the Federal law about returning slaves to the South?

Sure sounds the same to me.

Not that I want “illegal aliens” committing crimes against the public.

Not that I want “State Sovereignty” diminished. (We need true Federalism to keep the Federal Gooferment in check somewhat. It’s already ramped up its own power unconstitutionally.)

Not that I want to go to “war” with my fellow citizens against Gooferment at all levels.

But I do think this is best handled by the citizens of Massachusetts.

If the Massachusetts State Courts refuse to cooperate with Federal Courts, which IMHO they have every right to, then it’s the duty of citizens in every State to understand the conflict and support our fellow citizens in Massachusetts to sort out this Goofermental misunderstanding.

How what3words is being used to address refugee settlements in Uganda14/12/2018

The Rhino Refugee Camp in Arua, Uganda is embracing new technology to make life easier for the people who live there. 3 word addresses provide every home, church, medical centre and mosque with a simple and accurate way for people to describe its location and find it easily.

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The concept of using tech advances and innovation to give people fast access to reliable modern systems is known as technology leapfrogging. It is increasingly seen as one of the most effective ways of driving positive progress in developing countries.

Sebit Martin, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the CDC commented, ‘In the most remote refugee camps, a person has little to say about a location, which at the same time is often confusing and changeable. Not to mention how frustrating it is for ambulance drivers to try and locate emergency cases in a fragile situation of health and often situations where the very lives of persons of concern are at stake. So we are delighted to partner with what3words to solve these and many other problems concerning addressing in the refugee camps in Arua District.’

‘Finally, we also desire to give refugees the dignity they deserve by improving their living conditions and make 3 word addresses not only an easy way of talking about locations but a better language of hope in the refugee camp.’

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I had heard that Ford Motor Company was including it in their new vehicles in 2019.

It would seem that this could be useful for everyone when the technology supporting it is deployed. Street addresses are not always “good enough”. Try being a first aid squad looking to help someone off the beaten track or even on some streets and roads where addresses are not obvious. When I was living in Virginia, New Hampshire, and even the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee “addresses” were not obvious because folks don’t display them.

The Plan had its beginnings in 1918. It’s purpose the mass imprisonment of women believed to be sexually immoral. The program initially one of federal encouragement. Encouragement to state and local governments to legislate and make arrests based on the Plan.

A long time program. From 1918 into the 1970’s. Still exists in some states, though not enforced. Doubt anyone knows it is on the books.

The initial concern was the military. Too many soldiers were getting STI’s. Sexually transmitted infections. More today. Few back then. However the few a real problem. Infections rampant.

The two biggies were syphilis and gonorrhea.

The Plan resulted in the detainment of over 100,000 women over the years. In every state, in most big and small cities.

A follow the money situation. The federal government paid local governments a stipend for every conviction obtained. States and local governments went gung ho over the years in making arrests. Most had “moral squads.” Their sole purpose to apprehend prostitutes.

The Plan resulted in a mass deprivation of civil liberties. The founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, Roger Baldwin, did not oppose the Plan. In fact, he sent a memorandum to ACLU local offices to cooperate in its enforcement.

The American Plan is forgotten. Probably because it was not enforced federally. Ergo, no data repository.

In addition to the ACLU’s founder Roger Baldwin, other prominent figures supported the Plan. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. one of the biggest. Prominent physicians and anti-vice crusaders. The likes of William F. Stone, Richard M. Olin, and Thomas Parran.

Syphilis and gonorrhea had been a sexual fear for centuries The two became rampant in the early 20th century. The underlying currents of Victorian morals, pseudoscience, racism, and misogyny created the motivation to confront the problem. And confront it the Plan did.

Statutes were broadly worded. Permission to detain suspects on the flimsiest of pretexts. Women were arrested for wearing provocative clothing, walking down a street alone, dining alone, looking like a prostitute, changing jobs, and for no reason at all.

Testing was required to establish syphilis or gonorrhea. Generally at some point such testing occurred. If negative, the ladies were free to leave. Some women initially protested the testing. They were threatened with Scarlet Letter shaming. Red lettered signs placed on their homes.

Testing results not always correct. Many false positives.

The Plan’s goal was to get loose women off the streets. Most of he women arrested were working class or African-Americans.

There was no penicillin. Penicillin became available in the 1940’s. Prior to that time, the ladies were treated with mercury or arsenic.

So many ladies were arrested in certain communities that detention hospitals had to be established.

Prominent persons supporting the Plan also included New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. He made special speeches lauding the Plan. California Governor Earl Warren personally spearheaded enforcement in his State. Warren later became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

So it was!

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WOW, I’d never heard of this outrage.

This should be better known history. Like the Tuskegee Experiment, the Japanese Internment, … …

You Should Own GoldPosted on March 28, 2019 by Gary ChristensonGuest Post from David Smith, Money Metals Exchange

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Maybe you have some gold (and silver) but not enough. Maybe you haven’t added to your stash for quite awhile, and you kinda’ forgot why you bought it in the first place.

Or perhaps you don’t own any precious metals at all!

If one of these circumstances fits you, then it’s time to refresh your memory on the multiple reasons why you should own gold, assess your risk profile and unique financial circumstances… then act!

The oft-stated Gresham’s Law tells us that when a government dictates the exchange rate between different types of money, the “good,” or undervalued method of exchange gets chased out by the “bad,” or overvalued version.

Unbeknownst to most – for now – U.S. inflation (greatly understated by “official” statistics) is increasing across the board. It doesn’t need to hit double digits in order to move the dial on gold and silver prices. Invariably, the “smart money” sniffs out the potential well beforehand – which is what it’s been doing for the last 9 months!

The “good” money in the U.S. is in reference to gold after FDR’s infamous 1933 edict banning circulation… and later, the removal of silver from our coinage starting in 1965.

Today, a pre-1965 quarter at $16/ounce silver is worth about $2.75. Why would anyone exchange it for an 8% copper/92% nickel slug? As for a gold coin, don’t even bother doing the math!

In Venezuela, according to the IMF, inflation will rocket along this year at 10 million percent! How long do you think the ironically-named Bolivar Fuerte (“strong bolivar”) stays in someone’s pocket, bank account, backpack… or large cardboard box?

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Now anyone, who knows me, knows I’m a Crazy Old “Gold Bug”.

In my working life, I’ve met optimists and pessimists. I learned from both. From the optimists, never gamble what you can afford to lose. From the pessimists, if you always expect the worst, every surprise will be a pleasant one. (Like Murphy’s Law, I’ve egotistically named it “Reinke’s Rule of Negative Thinking”. Maybe someday, I too will be famous or infamous.)

If you follow what pretends to be economic thinking these days on the both the Left and the Right, there’s something called “Modern Monetary Theory”. Distilled to a nugget, it’s basically that the Gooferment can’t print as much “money” as it needs until it sees price inflation. That’s it. Stripped of all the mumbo jumbo and fancy pontificating. The dollar “floats” untied to anything. That’s the legacy of FDR and Nixon.

So sad. Thankfully, I don’t think I’ll be around to see the crash, but this is one UGLY chicken coming home to roost.

For the skeptical, here’s a more mainstream confirmation of the sad prediction:

Austrian Franciscan monks in Salzburg will cease feeding the poor after a number of violent incidents from foreign migrants.

The food service for the poor ended officially following an incident on Sunday in which four Romanian migrant beggars started fighting with each other in front of the Franciscan church, with monk Father Oliver also being physically attacked, as well, Kronen Zeitungreports.

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These are not “migrants” or “refugees”, who deserve our help.

These ARE free-loading street thugs who are a public nuisance.

I continued to be amazed at how those on the dole seem to have new expensive sneakers, smart phones, jewelry, artistic hair treatments, and flashy expensive nail art.

Sorry, that’s not my vision of a poor person who needs my charity.

I recently gave money to girl who needed glasses; that need was vouched for by a Christian missionary. Obviously authentic. The girl and her single Mom were clean and neat but had nothing like the list above.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘We have to film it again -with Olivia as the winner.’ Lori Loughlin’s daughter is caught in ANOTHER cheating scandal after claims a TV game show was rigged in her favor and the winning teen stripped of $5K prize

On Ash Wednesday, the holy season of Lent began — and so did the annual fundraising drives by many of the nation’s Catholic bishops. Don’t give them a dime.

Last fall, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops was supposed to vote on a resolution to create a special commission to investigate bishops who cover up sexual abuse. At the last minute, Pope Francis barred the bishops from holding the vote.

But it isn’t clear the resolution would have passed. The bishops did vote on a nonbinding resolution that would have urged the pope “to release all the documentation that can be released consistent with canon and civil law ­regarding the misconduct of Archbishop [Theodore] McCarrick.” As they debated the wording, the ­National Catholic Register reports, “they could not even agree on the inclusion of the word ‘soon.’ ”

Even the watered-down resolution was rejected 137-83, with three bishops abstaining. Want to know how your bishop voted? You can’t. When I asked the US Conference of Catholic Bishops for the roll call, a spokesman replied, “Sorry, the votes are anonymous, so we don’t know who voted for what.” That’s their idea of transparency.

The situation in Rome is no better. This year, Francis reportedly informed Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley that he would not authorize a full-fledged probe into the McCarrick coverup.

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When your pastor hands you an envelope, hand it back empty — or better yet, send your bishop a letter explaining that he will get no financial support until the conspiracy of silence is ended and corrupt bishops are held accountable.

I offer this advice with a heavy heart, because I am, and will always remain, a faithful Catholic. I will never leave the church for one simple reason: I will not let Judas separate me from Jesus. But let’s be clear: There are Judases in the ranks of today’s successors of the apostles. They covered up or ignored sexual misconduct and moved around predator priests — and continue to do so. They made secret payouts to victims while requiring them to sign confidentiality agreements. They were told about McCarrick’s serial abuses and did nothing — in many cases because McCarrick helped them rise to powerful positions.

The church isn’t a democracy, nor should it be. It exists to spread the views of its founder, not its followers. But that doesn’t mean that the laity must tolerate the bishops who have overlooked, ignored or covered up abuse. We must demand every bishop who did so be held to account and removed from office. Clearly the outcry of the victims is not enough. We have to vote with our pocketbooks.

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Sadly, I have to agree.

The laity mist hold the leadership accountable.

These scandals and the cover ups have cost the organization Church any moral authority.

I doubt it can be saved.

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IMHO, time to end the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” and put the effort into treatment like Portugal has. Otherwise, it’s hopeless problem.

They can’t keep drugs out of prisons; so how insane to expect to be able to keep it out of the general population.

At least if addicts could buy their drugs at WalMart, Walgreens, CVS, and other pharmacies, then the drugs would be cheap and clean. And, addicts could get into treatment easier and cheaper than today.

We emptied the mental asylums and the politicians and bureaucrats promised to have local resources that never came. Now we have crazy people roaming the streets and doing drugs.

We learned nothing from (alcohol) Prohibition and a lot of people died or went blind from tainted booze. The drugs cut with rat poison are killing people.

The medical establishment gets folks hook on opioids and when it cuts them off, the folks more to heroin or worse. Argh!

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Gamma Theta Phi (ΓΘΦ) was a fraternity founded in 1964, primarily at Catholic colleges. Unlike traditional fraternities, Gamma was organized by the student services departments at each school since several colleges did not want national fraternities coming on their campus. Since Gamma was, in essence, an outreach of student services, the colleges hoped to harness the positives of the fraternities (service, charitable projects & camaraderie), and avoid the negative stereotypes which plague many fraternities.

The project didn’t succeed. By 1967 all national work regarding Gamma had halted. Several of the local chapters continued at their respective colleges for a few years, but by 1997, all the chapters had dissolved.

ChaptersChapters existed at one time or another at the following schools:

[JR: Another indication of the dying of the “Catholic identity”. Was at the Prep from 60-63 and MC 64-69 and don’t remember hearing about it. But then the ingineers never heard much from “up the hill”. Did I miss something?]

A former Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal has been dismissed from the priesthood after the Vatican found him guilty of sexually abusing minors in a sign of an increasingly hardline stance taken by the church.

Theodore McCarrick, 88, one of the prominent figures in the church, was defrocked just days before an unprecedented global summit of bishops to discuss child sexual abuse is convened by the Vatican.

The Vatican’s move makes McCarrick the most senior figure to be removed from the priesthood in modern times. He will no longer be permitted to act as a cleric, and is forbidden to celebrate the sacraments except to grant absolution for sins to a person close to death. Only excommunication is a more severe punishment.

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Is this the harbinger of the end of the institutional “Catholic Church” in the USA?

Stories abound about both the Vatican and local “Catholic Churches” with abuse and homosexuality.

I mourn the loss of the “Church” in civil society as a counter-balance to the Gooferment which wants to become the sheeple’s “god”.

Falcons Owner Arthur Blank Will Collect All the Super Bowl LIII Revenue—Even Though Taxpayers Own the StadiumThe costs of maintaining and upgrading the stadium would be taxpayer-funded in perpetuity.Saturday, February 02, 2019Laura Williams

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On Sunday, the eyes of the nation will fall on Atlanta’s brand-new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, site of the 53rd Superbowl. As players and spectators pour into the city, they’ll be dazzled by a state-of-the-art retractable roof and an enormous, wrap-around digital screen. What will be less apparent to thousands of spectators and millions of television viewers is a different kind of innovation—a carefully concealed legal clause that will privatize future profits of the publicly-funded stadium.

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Crony Capitalism at its best!

It’s the old shell game of “privatize profits — socialize costs or losses”.

Christian MercenaryThis nation was founded on the God-given right of liberty. All things must be weighed against that right. Tyranny, oppression and suppression are evil and must be opposed.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2019A Better Understanding of Evil

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The book attempts to explain in a scholarly way the issues many of us have been writing about for years, a thing Mike Vanderboegh said in Lies of Omission, that we are a nation not “divided” so much as diametrically opposed to each other. While nothing, so far, has been revealed in the book that is not already known (it was published in 2011) it attempts to go further back with the explanation for what we are currently witnessing on a large and vivid scale.

The point was made, at least argued, that the Western culture and especially American culture is at a crossroads, the origin of each intersecting road going back to before the Enlightenment. What we see now as a liberal/conservative or a republican/communist conflict is actually a conflict between modernist and postmodernist point of view versus a Judeo-Christian culture.

While I am not sure that I will ultimately buy into the concept that the Judeo-Christian culture seeks beauty, truth and love, I am not finished reading the book and will reserve judgment until then. The authors did do a great job of explaining the opposite side of the coin and one passage sticks out immediately.

(Speaking of the left and by this I mean Republicans, too, because there is no longer and may never have been a true difference between Republicans and Democrats. What Pontynen and Miller describe could be any politician and it is the whole of the body politic in America that subscribes to the modernist-postmodernist point of view.)

The passage is this: “They rationalize power, envy and greed in the name of virtue, or claim it (virtue) is beyond rational discursive evaluation.”

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Well, this reinforces my belief that there is little difference between the R’s and the D’s.

And, just maybe, it is the epic continual battle between good and evil.

Even Keynesian technocrats are getting concerned about the massive U.S. fiscal deficit.

In a wide-ranging interview (video below), Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, deputy director of research at the International Monetary Fund, warns that EU economies are slowing and that exploding U.S. fiscal deficit is becoming a concern.

The concern about the U.S. deficit is genuine.

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As readers probably know, I’m a little L libertarian. So I don’t like “Gooferment” debt or taxes. But when you cut taxes, you must cut spending. Seems so obvious to me. Now the “tax and spendD’s — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aka AOC is the latest in long line of fiscal illiterates with big spending ideas — are essentially the same as the “borrow and spend” R’s. Both are a plague upon the nation. The current $526 billion deficit in 2019, 22T+ national debt, and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with is a national disaster!

Nuns Assigned to Immaculata Community to Leave Somerville after 61 YearsBy TAP INTO SOMERVILLE STAFFJanuary 13, 2019 at 7:01 PM

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“The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary extend greetings for blessings and peace to all who are a part of Immaculate Conception Parish! I appreciate your meeting with Sister Stephen Anne and me in December.

“In this way, we hope to stabilize our Sister personnel, not only to adjust our present numbers, but also to strengthen our apostolic presence and provide quality community life for our Sisters.

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I am reminded of the movie 2004 “The Day After Tomorrow” movie where the character Jack Hall says: “I think we are on the verge of a major climate shift!” and characters left behind are resigned to their fate.

Here’s another example of the demise of the “organizations” of the Church.

In the struggle for the hearts of the people, the “King” (Gooferment) has defeated the Church. Just like there can be only one Queen bee in a hive, so too there can be only one “god”.

When the Gooferment destroyed Catholic Schools with free Gooferment Skrules, the battle was lost.

“If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government school system in most cities.” — Walter Williams

So, like the Black Community, the Catholic Community will be destroyed.

HOW NOT TO DIE, an instant New York Times Best SellerMichael Greger, M.D.

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The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-recognized lecturer, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the fifteen top causes of death in America—heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure, and more—and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives.

The simple truth is that most doctors are good at treating acute illnesses but bad at preventing chronic disease. The 15 leading causes of death claim the lives of 1.6 million Americans annually. This doesn’t have to be the case. By following Dr. Greger’s advice, all of it backed up by peer-reviewed scientific evidence, you will learn which foods to eat and which lifestyle changes to make to live longer.

History of prostate cancer in your family? Put down that glass of milk and add flaxseed to your diet. Have high blood pressure? Hibiscus tea can work better than a leading hypertensive drug—and without the side effects. What about liver disease? Drinking coffee can reduce liver inflammation. Battling breast cancer? Consuming soy is associated with prolonged survival. Worried about heart disease (our #1 killer)? Switch to a whole-food, plant-based diet, which has been repeatedly shown not just to help prevent the disease, but arrest and even reverse it.

In addition to showing what to eat to help prevent the top 15 causes of death, How Not to Die includes Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen—a checklist of the foods we should try to consume every day. Full of practical, actionable advice and surprising, cutting-edge nutritional science, these doctor’s orders are just what we need to live longer, healthier lives.

And now you can order the new How Not to Die cookbook with over 120 Daily Dozen focused recipes!

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I’ve been following this doctor for a while and while it’s hard to change what one eats, I’m starting to “turn the Titanic”. I figure I have to live to 132 to steal back my “social security” money that was stolen from me — ignoring the time value of money. It’s hard to argue with his concept of “evidence based medicine” or the Hippocrates quote “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

To misquote Patrick Henry: “I know not what course other men may take” … … but I’l trying this one.